Family tree Jacobs » Jelle de Vries (1899-????)

Birthday June 28, 1899

• The temperature on June 28, 1899 was about 21.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author († 1968)
• 1892 » Carl Panzram, American serial killer († 1930)
• 1893 » August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor († 1970)
• 1894 » Francis Hunter, American tennis player († 1981)
• 1902 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer († 1979)
• 1906 » Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)